Uthal Karate School felicitates students
Bhubaneswar: Utkal Karate School (UKS) felicitated eight players at a function in the school building here on Saturday. Powerlifters Pardaip Kumar Patra and Kartikeswar Jena bagged gold medals in the 65kg weight and master-II categories respectively in the Subrat Classic World Powerlifting Benchpress and Deadlift Championship schedule to held at Jamshedpur from December 16 to 21. UKS shooters Gouri Mohanty, lipsa Sethi, Asis Nayak, Barabhadra Das, Debasis Rout and Bhabani Sankar Haiburu got selected to participate in the National Games to be held at Kerala, on the basis of their performance in the national shooting championship held at Pune in Maharashtra from December 15 to 25. The team manager Sandip Mohanty and the players were felicitated. Hari Prasad Pattnaik, Himanshu Das, Chittaranjan Swain, Chandra Shekhar Sahu, Mir Azmat Ali, Santosh Kumar Maharana, Krushna Kumari Mallick, Anupa Swain and Manisha Padhi were present in the felicitation ceremony.
Full contact karate tourney begins
Bhubaneswar: Kyokushin Kan style All India full contact Karate Tournament kicks started at Bhanja Bhavan in Rourkela on Friday, being organised by School of Martial Arts, Rourkela in association with All India full contact Karate Federation and Kyokushin sports Karate organisation of India. In the two days long meet total 345 karatekas and 60 national officials from two overseas countries Nepal and Iran with 18 States of India are participating. In the inaugural day the organiser felicitate women footballer Payri Xaxa and Ivva Panna. The players are joining in light weight, middle weight, heavy weight, open girls, below 50kg and 11 to 13 years kumute. Similarly in kata, girls and boys open kata and basic up to 10 years players. Rourkela Development Authority chairman Sarada Prasad Nayak, Manas Pradhan, social worker Santosh Singh, technical director Santosh Tanty, organising committee chairman Narendra Kumar Tripathy , India branch chief Mihir Bag, tournament committee president Harihar Nath, secretary Md Sultan Khan and director Md Irfan Khan were present in the inaugural ceremony.
2 Odisha lifter to participate in Asian Jr meet
Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s weightlifters Pramila Kirsani and Saraswati Rout would participate in the Asian Junior Weightlifting Championship schedule to be held at Goa from December 29 to January 9. Pramila and Saraswati would take part in 58kg and 53kg weight categories women events respectively. Odisha Weightlifting Association secretary Narayan Sahu and coach Sita Prasad Pattnaik would attend the meet as officials.
Aircel, Vodafone win in Secretariat Cup cricket
Bhubaneswar: Aircel and Vodafone defeated Tech Mahindra and Post Master General (PMG) by 44 and 43 runs respectively in the 16th Secretariat Cup Cricket Tournament at Indira Maidan here on Saturday, being organised by Odisha Secretariat Cricket Association.
Brief Score: Aircel 169/ 10 in 20 over (Avinash Ratha 51, Sudhir Nag 38, Soumay Ranjan Tripathy 32 runs, Chandan Samal 5 wkts) beat Tech Mahindra 125 / 9 in 20 over (Chinmaya Gantayat 36 , Soumyajit Datta 23 runs; Soumya Ranjan Tripathy, Saroj Behera 3 wkts each) by 44 runs.
Vodafone 154/5 in 20 over (Prakruti Miahra 30, Goutam Das 36 , Ajit Mahapatra 32, lingaraj Sahu 2 wkts, Pawan Singh 3 wkts) beat PMG 111/9 in 20 overs (Krushna Mohanty 38, Jaganath Sarangi 32; Prakruti Mishra 4/20) by 43 runs.
Bhubaneswar Cricket league from Feb 7
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Athletic Association proposed to conduct the Bhubaneswar Cricket league from 7 February 2015. Affiliated cricket clubs as well as other cricket clubs of Bhubaneswar Municipal area can participate in the league. Further details the club can contact BAA Secretary SR Parija: 9861065198 and cricket Secretary, AK Patra: 9438407899 on or before 10th January 2015. The clubs those submitted the security fees earlier need only to offer their consent.